Creating ordinate and running dimensions

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Aside from baseline dimension and chain dimension scheme, you can also use ordinate or running dimension schemes in SolidWorks to define values for the different parts of a drawing. This online video shows how to create ordinate and running dimensions so you'll have a concise and clean way of notating them when your design has multiple features.

…This movie will continue on with dimensioning…by adding the ordinate and running dimensioning styles.…To get started, let's go ahead up here to Smart…Dimension, and directly below that, click on the drop-down arrow.…And we're going to go ahead and choose the Horizontal Ordinate Dimension.…To use this dimensioning scheme, what we're going to do is…we're going to choose what is the baseline of the part.…In this case here, I'm going to choose this edge here.…And as I click on that, I'm going to actually…drag down this little zero mark, right below the part.…Now any item…I click on in the part, will automatically add to this dimension.…So, if I click on this first hole here, it adds a dimension.…

I click on the second hole here, adds the dimension.…This line here, this hole here, this line there,…this line, this hole, the end of the part.…Really quick way to dimension.…It's a great way to add a lot of dimensions quickly and it's very compact.…It only uses one line across the bottom of the part versus stacking it down the part.…

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12/9/2013

SOLIDWORKS is the world leader in 3D software for product development and design. Start creating manufacturing-ready parts and assemblies, as well as detailed drawings and bills of materials. In this course, author Gabriel Corbett shows how to create 2D sketches that will become the basis for your 3D models. You'll use the Extrude and Revolve tools to turn 2D sketches into 3D parts, then create more complex geometry with sweep and lofts. Then learn how to use the cut features to remove material and shape parts, and use mirroring, patterning, and scaling to modify parts. Next, you'll combine parts into movable assemblies and subassemblies. Finally, you'll create accurately annotated drawings, complete with itemized bills of materials that relate the final parts and assemblies to a manufacturer.